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"This book integrates policy, technology, and action research
methods in providing new perspectives and tools for Asian village
decision makers and planners who seek more effective uses of energy
in important rural tasks. The cooperative research on which the
book is based was motivated by two policy concerns: the supply
instability and price uncertainty of petroleum-based fuels,
fertilizers, and pesticides; and the environmental depletion
associated with widespread dependency on firewood and farm residues
for cooking fuel. The authors combine the voices and knowledge of
women and men who produce and use rural energy with analyses and
assessments by engineers, economists, agricultural scientists, and
anthropologists to clarify these issues while filling serious
information gaps about the use and substitution of fossil and
biomass fuels. The book focuses initially on cooking fuel required
to meet food and nutrition needs. It demonstrates research methods
linking energy with farming systems to increase agricultural
productivity and to support other income- and employment-generating
activities in rural areas. The authors thereby establish a research
agenda through which rural residents, interacting with specialists
and policymakers, can build upon their own experience and values in
organizing socially and environmentally appropriate rural energy
systems."
This volume had its origin at a conference held in 1978 at the
East- West Center that considered the short- and long-term energy
problems of the Asia-Pacific region. That group of national energy
policymakers, scientists, and technologists agreed that providing
adequate energy for the rural areas of the developing countries
looms large as one of the more critical problems of the region.
Encouraged by this consensus, the East-West Resource Systems
Institute obtained a grant from the Agency for International
Development for the purpose of initiating a collaborative,
multi-country study of rural energy problems. The National Research
Council of Thailand and the East-West Center agreed to work closely
together as twin foci for the coordination of the effort.
Relationships and alignments among the nations of the world's most
populous and productive region, the Asia Pacific, are in flux.
Current global political, economic and security uncertainty,
heightened by 9/11 and the subsequent War on Terror, has fuelled a
reassessment by many Asia Pacific nations about the structure and
form of future economic and political cooperation and development.
Featuring contributions from some of the most eminent and
influential economists and political scientists in the Asia Pacific
region, this book explores the forces reshaping the Asia Pacific
economic order, and where these changes may lead. Focusing on the
origins of the shift towards policy driven integration, the book
examines what new structures may eventually emerge on both sides of
the Pacific, the ways in which this shift will affect the progress
of economic integration and how cross-Pacific relations will
therefore be affected.
Relationships and alignments among the nations of the world's most
populous and productive region, the Asia Pacific, are in flux.
Current global political, economic and security uncertainty,
heightened by 9/11 and the subsequent War on Terror, has fueled a
reassessment by many Asia Pacific nations about the structure and
form of future economic and political cooperation and development.
This book, featuring contributions from some of the most eminent
and influential economists and political scientists in the region,
examines the forces reshaping the Asia Pacific economic order, and
where they lead.
The questions this book seeks to answer are the origins of the
shift towards policy driven integration, what new structures might
eventually emerge on both sides of the Pacific, the ways in which
that shift will affect the progress of economic integration and how
cross-Pacific relations will therefore be affected. This discussion
directs attention to the fact that economic cooperation and
security are complementary.
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